“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] I am speaking now of survival situations.

This incidentally is the least acceptable survival pattern. [...]

[...] Even in animal groups, individuals are not only concerned with personal survival, but with the survival of “family” members. [...]

The ego, because of its responsibility, will therefore fight against what it then considers an unknown threat to survival. [...]

This provides necessary balance and necessary control, and results in the sturdy anchorage of the personality in the environment in which it must survive. [...]

Your overreliance upon physical norms, and your distorted concepts concerning survival of the fittest, help exaggerate the existence of any genetic defects, of course. [...] The survival of the species is far more dependent upon your subjective activities than your physical ones—for it is your subjective behavior that is responsible for your physical acts. [...] The robot is programmed only to survive at anyone’s or anything’s expense. [...]

Science seems to be of the opinion that the individual is important only insofar as (louder:) he or she serves the purposes of the species’ survival—and I am not saying that. [...]

[...] The writer cannot survive without the survival of the person. [...]

[...] For reference he read up on requirements for survival. [...]

This, again, deepened their intimate sense of relationship with nature, and encouraged their tendency to go along with it, to survive within its context rather than combat it. [...]

[...] The situation did become so serious that for a while they did fear for their survival.

He will be mainly concerned in an effort to prove his survival. His messages will be full of trivial but significant data that will make his survival plain to those he has left behind.

(Jane said she thought Seth might have gone into the survival material because of some of the marginal notes made on her ESP manuscript by our unknown friend, particularly on the chapters dealing with reincarnation.

(She thought the last paragraph came about because our same friend had made some notes about authentic survival messages being given in “shorthand,” the letter “U” for the word you, etc.

[...] Intellectual acceptance of me as a complete survival personality will follow the intuitive knowledge. [...]

[...] He did not believe I was a survival personality strongly enough to request that I even try to convince him.

[...] It is said that in “the struggle to survive” man was literally driven to expand his physical boundaries.

[...] And again, the survival of the species in those terms is basically dependent upon its belief in the meaningfulness of its existence. [...]

A scientist who would threaten the very survival of life on the planet in order to increase life’s conveniences (underlined) is, however, truly displaying ludicrous behavior (with irony).

[...] You also had to survive economically.

[...] The creative abilities are quite capable of helping your physical survival, economically speaking, when they are freely followed. [...]

You both believed you had to fight to survive—particularly as artists—against the society; and Ruburt believed he must fight his own biology.

[...] The panic has to do with many issues involving Ruburt’s earlier experience, particularly with his mother and the church when he was a very young person, very determined to survive in life, and trying to learn what kinds of behavior added to or threatened that survival. [...]

[...] A struggle for survival, it seemed, came more immediately closer, particularly in the light of the hospital situation. [...]

[...] You will have more direct evidence for the survival of the human personality.

[...] Some personalities, survival personalities, because of their personal characteristics, are more able to directly manipulate physical matter than others, more temperamentally suited to it, and consider it in itself a challenging endeavor.

(“A survival personality?”)

We will begin by examining the cause behind the breaking up of necessary physical patterns so that survival within the world of matter is no longer possible. [...] Existence within the physical field depends upon a focus of psychic energy, in the subconscious construction of that physical organism without which material survival is not possible.

[...] The individual whole self, by its very nature, will not restrain itself indefinitely to the particular set of necessities and perceptions necessary for survival within any one given field of reality.

There is not only a physical survival at stake, but also a highly delicate balance to be maintained. [...]

[...] But that also [became] bound up with Darwinian ideas of the survival of the fittest, and with the belief, then, that each individual must seek his or her own good at the expense of others, and by the quite erroneous conception that all of the members of a given species are in competition with each other, and that each species is in further competition with each other species.

[...] In the past you treated the land in your country as if your species, being the “fittest,” had the right to survive at the expense of all other species, and at the expense of the land itself. [...]

Because of some of mankind’s curious characteristics, often it does not change unless his life depends upon it, unless survival is threatened. He will be forced to recognize, use and develop his paranormal abilities simply to survive, and in so doing will release them finally for his own benefit and the benefit of his fellows.

[...] He simply perceived a woman, a survival personality if you prefer. [...]

(Jane has always wanted to see an apparition, or survival personality, and now has had her wish. [...]

(I asked Jane to keep these questions in mind, perhaps to be answered by Seth later in the session: Was the survival personality aware of Jane? [...]

(I reminded Jane that one of the questions we had asked Seth to answer, earlier, still hadn’t been dealt with: Whether or not the woman Jane saw, as a survival personality, was aware of Jane.

(Long pause.) Such beliefs serve to limit your comprehension, until it seems often that physical life consists of a frantic struggle for survival at every level of consciousness. [...]

[...] It’s perfectly capable of surviving even while it’s home to a species as obstreperous as man. [...]

[...] Each species, again, then, is not only concerned with physical survival and the multiplication of its members, but [with] an intensification and fulfillment of those particular qualities that are characteristic of it.

[...] If the species struggles to survive, then how can individuals want to die?

The cell is individual, and struggles for rightful survival. Yet its time is limited, and the body’s survival is dependent upon the cell’s innate wisdom: The cell must die finally for the body to survive, and only by dying can the cell further its own development, and therefore insure its own greater survival. [...]

(“I’ll ask this question now, and you can develop it as you choose: Can you help Jane contact survival personalities?”)

[...] Someone in your plane must want to contact someone on a nonphysical plane badly; and that survival personality must also want to communicate.

Now this sort of experience would convince you of survival, as perhaps nothing else could. [...]